Three-Baton Twirling

Try Twirling Three Batons, by Ginnette Groome

Unless you're a highly advanced solo twirler who is also proficient in two-baton, you shouldn't try to learn three-baton. Total baton control is a necessity if you expect to master three batons. So are body coordination, agility, and speed, as well as an extraordinary ability to concentrate.

There are three types of maneuvers in three-baton twirling:
(1) Showers: Two batons in the air with the third being passed from one hand to the other. Showers can be done in flat or vertical planes.
(2) Juggles: Throwing the batons from one hand to another so quickly that all appear to be in the air at the same time. The technique is identical to a circus juggler's technique and is used not only for batons, but apples, dishes, and what have you.
(3) Two-baton tricks, altered somewhat to incorporate having the third baton in the air.

From "The Complete Book of Baton Twirling",
by Fred W. Miller and Gloria Smith with Perri Ardman,
Doubleday &;Company, Inc., 1980 (out of print).


Three Baton Twirling is the continuous and uninterrupted manipulation of three batons at the same time by one individual and will combine the techniques and skills of baton twirling with "juggling moves" to display the mastery of perfect timing, coordination, concentration, absolute control, pattern/plane treatment, manual dexterity and demonstrating a broad base of Three Baton skills. The Three Baton event shows the ability of the athlete to demonstrate intricacy of three batons to a high degree with added responsibility of continuity, ambidexterity, simultaneous blending, design quality, flow, performance skills appropriate to three baton and body technique.

There is no deduction in score for use of non-standard patterns to facilitate the control and continuity necessary for this event. There is no deduction in score for intentional breaks.

From the USTA Information, Procedures, and Rules, Tenth Revision"


In Three-Baton Twirling, a contestant uses three batons. One-baton score sheet is used, with logical interpretation.

From the NBTA International 1995 Rules Handbook"


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